Research apps

Once upon a time, the most frustrating aspect of a meeting away from your office was when you checked in your briefcase for a certain piece of paper only to find that you had forgotten or mislaid it. These days, with a computer close at hand, we seem to have alleviated much of that problem. Away from the computer is a different matter, however. Unless you had the forethought to email yourself the information so that it was easily accessible you still have the same problem. Your information is at one place and you are at another. PDF stash is a cloud-based productivity app that organizes ... More

It's interesting that FormMule uses a mule as its logo because this form building application really does take the donkeywork out of the business of creating forms online for your data. In the past, it's been pretty easy to create forms to collect data of all sorts online - assuming that you have a pretty good knowledge of coding, that is. But how about the rest of us? Well, FormMule solves that problem in an instant by letting you create them for all your needs - whether that be for your business, for birthday parties and weddings or for anything else you might need to collect information ... More

In days of old, the only real feedback that a business would get would be an 'over the counter' one from a disgruntled customer. And even then, it is said that for every person that complains, there are another six who will simply tell their friends...who tell their friends. Things have moved on from those days and meaningful knowledge has been gathered via everything from door-to-door surveys to in-person focus groups. But the single biggest change in survey gathering has occurred since the turn of the century. The online survey business now generates in excess of two billion dollars ... More

It's probably the introduction of devices like smartphones and tablets that have brought about the likes of an app like Startific. iPhones and iPad have their apps lined up so neatly and precisely within the interface that we now realize how pleasant and efficient it is to have all our accessible information laid out at our fingertips via their colorful icons. Startific is a beautiful, functional and customizable startpage where you can import and organize all your most important links, bookmarks, icons and widgets so that they are now just a fingertip away from access. Startific ... More

You hear it said all the time! The hardest part of the creative process lies in that spark of an idea that spurs you on in the first place and sets the juices flowing. And who better could there be to come up with those ideas than the people that will benefit the most - the general public and your customers. Buzzsourcing is a new business monitoring and marketing application that uses crowd sourcing to get the answers to your marketing questions. This easy to use app is perfect for businesses that deal with the public and who want to spark their creative juices with opinions from the ... More

No, Anime Doctor isn't a virtual medical app where you can submit your ailments for online appraisal nor is it the home of an online vet. For the uninitiated, Anime began as a Japanese art form from the early part of the 20th Century. However, since the 1960's it has become one of the fastest moving and most influential art movements of our time. Anime, and the Manga magazines that put it on the street, reflects populist art and design that has not only inspired much of Disney's recent work but often gives an insight into Japanese society that is hidden from other media forms. Anime ... More

When it comes right down to it, wordonthewire is a search engine application that allows you to display results from multiple platforms in a single search. So why not just search Bing or Google, you may ask? Well the answer to that question is that if you are looking up a specific topic, wordonthewire gives you a much broader and more refined search results. While it doesn't look like its going to be too impressive on first look, this free search engine and browser displays surprisingly good and varied results for your pet subject. Got serious research to do? Itching for ... More

If you asked people worldwide whether they thought Barack Obama's endorsement of same sex marriage equality would harm his chances of re-election what do you think the response would be? Well, you could make a guess based on what you read in the paper or you could find out for yourself by asking the question in MapYourVote and getting responses directly from the horse's mouth. But while this free social research application can deal with serious issues it can also be used as a whole heap of fun by asking less life-defining questions without fear of ridicule. MapYourVote allows you ... More

So, you've designed your website and are ready to go live and you think that its looking pretty good - but how do you know if it's what your viewers want? If it were a movie it would be put in front of various focus groups to get feedback on whether it looks and works well. Tesdor takes the place of the focus group by offering any number of tests on your website to give you the amount of feedback that you think you need. Tesdor is a safe and secure web design research and review application that's used by thousands of businesses around the world. It creates near instant, on demand ... More

Research, as anyone who has seriously dabbled in it will know, can be a very time-consuming occupation if you want to do it properly. Factbrowser is a social and business research and marketing application for your mobile phone that simplifies research by collating all the best and most relevant results of your search from some of the most respected publications the world over. While it's pretty easy to Google or Bing your searches, Factbrowser hunts down specifically relevant publications based on the information you are looking for. Factbrowser is the discovery engine for ... More